Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor apparently had herself quite the summer vacation in Puerto Rico last year, and somebody else picked up the tab for the entertainment. According to her 2025 financial disclosure, as reported by The American Tribune, Rimas Entertainment gifted Sotomayor concert tickets valued at $43,333. That is not a typo. Forty three thousand dollars in concert tickets. For one trip.
Rimas Entertainment is the Puerto Rico based record label founded by Noah Assad, who also happens to manage a little artist named Bad Bunny. Sotomayor said in her disclosure that the tickets were "for a concert for me and guests while I was on a private trip to Puerto Rico in August 2025." The form did not name which artist she saw, but here is a fun coincidence: Bad Bunny was in the middle of a 30 day residency in San Juan running from July to September 2025. So either she caught Bad Bunny or Rimas has another artist whose tickets cost more than a midsize sedan.
As The Daily Caller noted, Bad Bunny later performed entirely in Spanish during the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show, then wiped his Instagram clean afterward. His selection as halftime performer divided fans, partly because of his anti-ICE stance, which he showcased at the 2026 Grammys by declaring "ICE out" during his acceptance speech. Turning Point USA responded by hosting an "All-American Halftime Show" featuring Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett, which pulled in 6.1 million concurrent YouTube viewers according to data shared by the New York Times.
Sotomayor also disclosed a much more modest $598 gift from the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, which covered her return airfare after the theater put on a musical adaptation of her children's book "Just Ask!" So at least one of her freebies was book related.
Speaking of books, her fellow justices are doing quite well in the publishing department. Amy Coney Barrett earned close to $850,000 in royalties from Javelin Group LLC. Neil Gorsuch pulled in over $300,000 from HarperCollins and Princeton University Press. Ketanji Brown Jackson topped them all with almost $1.2 million from a book advance from Penguin Random House. Forget law school, kids. Just become a Supreme Court justice and write a book.
The disclosures dropped the same day the Court issued rulings on birthright citizenship (kept it), transgender athletes on girls' and women's sports teams at public schools (upheld state bans), and political party coordinated spending limits on federal elections (struck them down). But sure, let us talk about the concert tickets, because $43,333 worth of live music from a record label while you sit on the highest court in the land is the kind of detail that tends to raise an eyebrow or twelve.
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